> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:31:22AM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote:> > > +#define NFS4_MAXLABELLEN 4096> > Idle curiosity--why 4096? (Why couldn't it be 16? And how do we know> people will never want 8192?)

I think I raised this a while back, too.

The maximum security label size on Linux is:

#define XATTR_SIZE_MAX 65536

Why arbitrarily limit this over the network?

Someone could have a valid local security label which can't be conveyed via NFS.